Yona Friedman is the great utopian and visionary among architects of the 20th century. A native of Hungary, who lives and works in Paris, Friedman considers himself both an architect and sociologist. The needs of the individual in the heterogeneous urban societies in which he, the cosmopolitan, move[...]

In 1958 Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on "mobile architecture" and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile), which proposed different strategies and actions geared to the adaptation of architectural creation to modern user requirements for social and physical mobility. In th[...]